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Sean Houlihane

@tsh2.bsky.social
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@tsh2@mastodon.ie Front end ASIC design. UK/FR (for now). All opinions are my own.

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John Breen @breen.tech · 2h
Elon Musk never does anything new or original btw. Just copies people youtu.be/CdbE5RiIaSM
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First Car That Drives Upside Down! McMurtry Speirling PURE VP1 (EV Hypercar)
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1h
“As clearly as he can, he is announcing that he is not the leader of the free world, that he is not even a reliable member of the democratic west, that he is in fact an ally of its enemies – but the west, including Britain, either doesn’t fully get the message“
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 4h
With the US midterms just weeks away, Trump needs fuel prices to fall. He's turned to Putin for help. What does that mean for Zelensky, and for the Western alliance? Prof Richard Murphy considers the consequences. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Trump’s Russian diesel deal could come at a devastating price
Trump’s deal with Putin may ease fuel shortages, but risks undermining Ukraine and destabilising an already fragile world
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 11h
"Ten years on, we ought at least to be capable of having an honest discussion about how to find our way back. We are Europeans. And I still believe we should be in the European Union." Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner calls for the UK to move forward from Brexit. www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/dani...
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Labour MP: Britain needs an honest debate about rejoining the EU
We should be in the EU. And I was fiercely proud to be a European citizen, and furious at having those rights taken away.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8h
£150bn is on the table. EU membership is a no-brainer. www.thetimes.com/business/economics…
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28
Daily Mail Front Page headline:

4 out of 5 new jobs went to foreigners in the past decade. 

Monk debunks Stamp over the headlne
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 11h
This is an important point. I became a British citizen in 2013, but because I got my NI number in 2008, the lazy government records my various jobs as going to foreigners
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Sean Houlihane @tsh2.bsky.social · 23h
This is what happens when you buy your BnB's internet from Shell Energies. 320kbps upload, completely unusable.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 15/10/2026
New satellite imagery reveals the full extent of tree felling on a Washington DC golf course long eyed for development by President Trump. 430 trees were reportedly cut with little notice over the weekend, undermining attempts to protect the site. www.bellingcat.com/news/us-cana...
A satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the East Potomac Golf Links on October 8 before tree felling.A satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the East Potomac Golf Links on October 13th after tree felling.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ralph Lauren replaced sustainability targets in executive bonuses with AI adoption targets. The four AI KPIs were 2 AI training completion rates and 2 employee AI survey response rates. The board approved a +10% bonus modifier for exceeding them. None measured actual productivity gains from AI. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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AJ 🦋 @andjamwar.uk · 15/10/2026
Exquisite
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Sean Houlihane @tsh2.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Unvented.
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Sean Houlihane @tsh2.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
B&Q have ffp3 masks, as well as ffp1 invented for the infected
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Sean Houlihane @tsh2.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Weekend away, and we have COVID in the house. Lucky we bought a combined test and not just flu (since that was the assumed diagnosis). Vector is a hospital worker, but they don't have vaccinations offered.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/10/2026
Reform UK must take “immediate and firm action” against party members caught in an undercover journalism sting using racist language, the Prime Minister has said. www.itv.com/news/2026-10-15/reform-…
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/10/2026
@pimlicat.bsky.social explains on Times Radio how public opinion on Brexit has dramatically changed since the referendum. She tells MPs who represent areas that formerly voted Leave that "they need to understand that in many of those constituencies, people are now more in favour of membership.” 🚨
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Rose Runswick @rosenstead.co.uk · 11/10/2026
If you ever need an example of radicalisation I beg you read the Tweets of some of the Lib Dem Members who still use Twitter, genuinely just saw an unironic argument for repealing the Great Reform Act 1832.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: “Don’t attack us. Don’t kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it’s a fair deal.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Oh, you poor, simple thing. God doesn’t name hurricanes. A meteorological committee does. Bless your heart.
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Jerome @jeromegill.com · 11/10/2026
Is anyone in my network investigating blossomup? Seems like another cambridge analytica data harvesting scandal brewing... or simply no one cares any more and there is no scandal either way it's very sinister
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In August, Trump purchased between $1m and $5m in SpaceX bonds. Two days later, he signed a memorandum setting out a new policy pledging US government support for space transportation companies: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Zelensky’s approval rating with AMERICANS is already higher than Trump’s. And my guess is the gap will become even bigger. Zelensky here speaking bravely and clearly (both factually and morally)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 08/10/2026
😳 Just when you thought you’d heard ever Brexit story possible - A Suffolk wine merchant has told a jury that stress from the knock on impact of Brexit may have contributed to a psychotic episode as he stands accused of exposing himself to two women.
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Suffolk wine merchant says Brexit stress could have led him to expose his genitals
A Suffolk wine merchant has given evidence in his trial where he is alleged to have exposed himself to two women.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"In England, all key indicators increased this week indicating a low but increasing risk of Covid. Test positivity rates are continue to remain highest in London, the West Mids, and Yorkshire & Humberside. Whilst Flu activity is low it is rising earlier than previous years." 1/2
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reform's barrister, who cleared the party and aides of wrongdoing alleged in an undercover investigation into foreign donations, was a UKIP member for years and has a longstanding association with Farage.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can you imagine the derisory coverage and outright mockery if any other party with single-digit MPs decided to "declare a General Election" and go on a bus tour? Yet when this outlandish nonsense comes from Farage, it is treated as somehow brilliant. "Subscribe to continue..." No thanks. I'm good.
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Reform leader to begin in Yorkshire next week where party sees ‘many Cabinet scalps to be had’ in Labour heartlands

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Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local election in May
Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local elections in May Credit: Geoff Pugh for The Telegraph
Nigel Farage is to “fire the starting gun” on Reform UK’s general election campaign with a nationwide tour beginning next week, The Telegraph can reveal…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
Reform UK is using the Trump handbook ⬇️ "The ban essentially means that Reform UK, through withdrawn engagement, cannot be questioned on their statements and actions. I can continue reporting and attending meetings, but I am not allowed to scrutinise elected officials wearing turquoise rosettes."
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Reform blacklisted me for doing my job as a local reporter
Eddie Bisknell, a local democracy reporter for Reform-led Derbyshire county council was told it would no longer engage w
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have heard rumours that Richard Tice heads a company called Britain Means Business, that has no employees and sells no products but takes in very large donations from foreign based people and forwards them to Reform UK Ltd. I can't believe this is true, but if it is it should bring down Reform.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hadn’t realised that you could ‘attend’ GPEW conference - and seemingly vote - remotely just by being a member and paying a fee. Can’t see what might go wrong with that, at all….
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Germany’s ambassador to the UK, speaking to The Telegraph: "It is, of course, for the British people to decide how close they want that relationship to be. But let me be clear: in Germany you will always find a partner for setting the ambition as high as we can."
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/10/2026
When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works, users rely on courts to recognize that laws can’t make technical impossibilities a reality. Thankfully, a court has blocked Utah’s attempt to restrict VPN use. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical
In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BBC News has just told the nation that it was entirely OK that Farage was given £5 million because some nutter dreamed of killing him. Beyond belief.
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Sean Houlihane @tsh2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Never been in one. My parents were not keen on fast food.
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Sean Houlihane @tsh2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
no, you fool, it is not easier for me to phone. I have not found a company yet to send my a quote, and T&C by email.
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Sean Houlihane @tsh2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Portage Salarial, any recommendations? So far, I am just trading my phone number for <not even an ack> I really don't want to discuss my unique personal situation over the phone in French, I just want some numbers. None of the companies even seem to have an english translation of their website.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham has broken the taboo on prime ministers being open to the UK rejoining the EU. It's a really important moment for our country. The inescapable truth is that the UK cannot achieve decent growth and fund the public services the public demands without EU alignment.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A campaign with the slogan "Russia is not my enemy" is currently spreading on X. You know, in reality, it doesn’t matter how you personally feel about Russia. What matters is what Putin and the Kremlin elites want to - and are able to - do to your country.
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